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author | djm@openbsd.org <djm@openbsd.org> | 2019-12-21 02:19:13 +0000 |
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committer | Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org> | 2019-12-21 13:22:07 +1100 |
commit | 40be78f503277bd91c958fa25ea9ef918a2ffd3d (patch) | |
tree | b17303fad21f97437b44cf3264a03abfd503ebdf /ssh_config.5 | |
parent | 416f15372bfb5be1709a0ad1d00ef5d8ebfb9e0e (diff) |
upstream: Allow forwarding a different agent socket to the path
specified by $SSH_AUTH_SOCK, by extending the existing ForwardAgent option to
accepting an explicit path or the name of an environment variable in addition
to yes/no.
Patch by Eric Chiang, manpage by me; ok markus@
OpenBSD-Commit-ID: 98f2ed80bf34ea54d8b2ddd19ac14ebbf40e9265
Diffstat (limited to 'ssh_config.5')
-rw-r--r-- | ssh_config.5 | 15 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/ssh_config.5 b/ssh_config.5 index dc7a2143d..186e07617 100644 --- a/ssh_config.5 +++ b/ssh_config.5 | |||
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ | |||
33 | .\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF | 33 | .\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF |
34 | .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. | 34 | .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. |
35 | .\" | 35 | .\" |
36 | .\" $OpenBSD: ssh_config.5,v 1.311 2019/12/19 15:09:30 naddy Exp $ | 36 | .\" $OpenBSD: ssh_config.5,v 1.312 2019/12/21 02:19:13 djm Exp $ |
37 | .Dd $Mdocdate: December 19 2019 $ | 37 | .Dd $Mdocdate: December 21 2019 $ |
38 | .Dt SSH_CONFIG 5 | 38 | .Dt SSH_CONFIG 5 |
39 | .Os | 39 | .Os |
40 | .Sh NAME | 40 | .Sh NAME |
@@ -669,11 +669,14 @@ and | |||
669 | .It Cm ForwardAgent | 669 | .It Cm ForwardAgent |
670 | Specifies whether the connection to the authentication agent (if any) | 670 | Specifies whether the connection to the authentication agent (if any) |
671 | will be forwarded to the remote machine. | 671 | will be forwarded to the remote machine. |
672 | The argument must be | 672 | The argument may be |
673 | .Cm yes | 673 | .Cm yes , |
674 | or | ||
675 | .Cm no | 674 | .Cm no |
676 | (the default). | 675 | (the default), |
676 | an explicit path to an agent socket or the name of an environment variable | ||
677 | (beginning with | ||
678 | .Sq $ ) | ||
679 | in which to find the path. | ||
677 | .Pp | 680 | .Pp |
678 | Agent forwarding should be enabled with caution. | 681 | Agent forwarding should be enabled with caution. |
679 | Users with the ability to bypass file permissions on the remote host | 682 | Users with the ability to bypass file permissions on the remote host |